i.
Living in Germany this year has ignited a passion to learn. To gain command of a new language, to study the great masters in art and architecture, to retain not only U.S. history but world history…
My appetite has been teased and my tastebuds are tingling…but I forget more than I can remember.
Fantasy #1 is to learn new things the way Neo and Trinity did in The Matrix.
ii.
Turning secret dreams into common reality…w h a t i f?
I'm an idea girl…a manufacturer of fantastical inklings and delicious schemes.
Here's to 2013 being the year some of them seep out of my head and heart and into the land of the living.
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For a lot of years I lived as a Stepford Christian, professing to a prescribed faith I really didn't believe. The Bible belt's buckle cinched tight, suffocating rather than infusing belief. I thought doubt was a sin and asking questions anathema.
I've recently wondered what I would believe about God if no man influenced my belief. No pastor from any pulpit, no music from the ancients or contemporaries, not even any of the great authors and teachers I so highly revere.
Fantasy #3 is the most impossible wish: opening my Bible and coming to it without prejudice or persuasion of others.
Are you brave enough and willing to share your own fantastical wishes and dreams?
Oh, I do love you, Robin. And I love your number 3. Just this year (2012), I read (well, O.K., I am reading) the Bible through for the first time. My husband and I chose a chronological reading plan, and it has been the most interesting, inspiring journey. He’s well ahead of me and will probably finish on December 31. Me? I’m a child of grace and will probably finish sometime mid-February. That’s O.K. I’ve learned so much by doing this.
My wish? That you and I could spend a little time together in 2013. How on earth could that happen?? 🙂
Dreams, fantasies… My life is richer when dreams and reality intermingle.
1. I know what you mean by #3. There are too many Biblical details I haven’t seen as I read them because they did not figure into the story as it was taught by the church. Learning more about Biblical culture and Eastern philosophy helps. Learning the Greek and Hebrew definitions of words is helpful. OK. I realize that’s still not just me with an open mind and a Bible, but it’s a step towards a new understanding. Comprehending Kenneth Hagin’s and Charles Capps’ definitions of living by faith has totally opened the Word up in an entirely new light. OK. That’s still not quite what you were talking about, but it’s the closest I’ve come to it as of yet. And it brings me to my dream #2.
2. My husband and I graduate from Rhema Bible College and teach at Rhema’s all over the world.
3. Get a PHD in Bio-Psychology or Linguistics or…
4. Become fluent in German and read the Grimm Brothers’ original writings.
5. …
“…without dreams life is a broken winged bird that can not fly…” did I pull that out of Langston Hughes? I need to go look it up.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
To learning more.
To bring ideas to fruition.
To opening and listening.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
To learning more.
To bring ideas to fruition.
To opening and listening.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
To learning more.
To bring ideas to fruition.
To opening and listening.